Three of the suspected terrorists have now been named: Salah Abdeslam, his brother Ibrahim Abdeslam, and Omar Ismaïl Mostefai. Mostefai, 29, was one of three men who blew himself up, killing 89 people in the bloodiest scene of the carnage.

The death toll rose to 129 after a further three people died in hospital from their injuries, medical officials said. The attack left 352 injured, 99 critically.

A stash of weapons were found in a getaway vehicle believed to have been used in the Paris attacks. Detectives found three Kalashnikov rifles along with fingerprints in the abandoned vehicle, discovered in the eastern Parisian suburb of Montreuil.

This is Raya Jalabi in New York handing over the liveblog to Claire Phipps in Sydney.

Muslim and Jewish leaders gather at Paris concert hall memorial

They carried white roses, which they laid amid the hundreds of candles and bouquets left by members of the public and were accompanied, as a show of inter-faith solidarity, by representatives of Paris’s Jewish community.

As the group stood at the barriers around the music venue where heavily armed gunmen went on a murderous rampage on Friday night, they broke into a ragged rendition of La Marseillaise.

Worse for Hollande, his numerous calls for Assad’s removal from power, or even “elimination” as French foreign minister Laurent Fabius once said, have suffered several setbacks, isolating France as the diplomatic scene shifted.

Syrian President met with a French delegation in Damascus on Saturday. Photograph: Syrian Arab News Agency/EPA

[...] Until Friday, the French government was still insisting on Assad’s departure as a precondition for any political settlement in Syria, putting the Syrian president on a par with Isis in blame for the country’s tragedy. But France has become more and more isolated in this stand, with Russia and Iran increasingly pushing their agenda. The US listened. Only Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states have applauded the French attitude, rewarding it with big arms deals.

Hollande’s Syria strategy was caught between Putin’s offensive and Obama’s reluctance. He had chosen the high moral ground, refusing to associate either with a brutal regime or a bloody opposition, but this was not necessarily the most practical option in a situation that involves choosing the least bad option rather than the best one.

Have the Paris attacks changed the rules of the game? Both Hollande and his prime minister, Manuel Valls, proclaimed in martial words that the enemy is Isis, and that France’s response would be merciless. Has the shift been made from having two enemies to one?

US political reaction to Paris attacks

US foreign policy hawks seized on the Paris terrorist attacks to argue for more aggressive military intervention in the Middle East, writes my colleague Dan Roberts (@RobertsDan).

Following a Democratic television debate on Saturday that was dominated by calls for a tougher response to Islamic State radicals, leading Republicans joined the fray on Sunday in a series of political interviews that also saw linked attacks on immigration and calls for more intelligence surveillance.

“This is clearly an act of war and an attack on one of our Nato allies, and we should invoke Article 5 of the Nato agreement, and bring everyone together to put together a coalition to confront this challenge,” Senator Marco Rubio said on ABC.

He was joined by his Florida rival Jeb Bush, who also demanded the US lead a new war to “eradicate Isis from the face of the earth” and warned that screening of Muslim refugees from Syria was unlikely to be fully effective in preventing terrorist infiltration of the US.

[...]“We should focus our efforts as it relates to refugees on the Christians that are being slaughtered,” he added, suggesting that specific efforts should take place to determine individuals’ religion before refugees were admitted into the US.

Meanwhile, the governor of Michigan Rick Snyder is putting efforts to accept Syrian refugees on hold following the deadly attacks in Paris, until federal officials fully review security clearances and procedures.

Snyder has said though Michigan is “proud of our rich history of immigration”, the state’s “priority is protecting the safety of our residents.” Several Republican presidential candidates have criticized the Obama administration’s plans to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees and urge much greater scrutiny.

Why Syrian refugee passport found at Paris attack scene must be treated with caution

As France announced its “massive” airstrikes on the Isis stronghold in Syria, the New York Times reports that the Paris attackers had communicated with Isis members in Syria, according to French and US officials.

The attackers in Friday’s terrorist assault in Paris communicated at some point beforehand with known members of the Islamic State in Syria, officials on both sides of the Atlantic say, adding evidence to the assertions that the radical group coordinated or helped carry out the attacks rather than simply inspired them.

President François Hollande of France has characterized the attacks as “an act of war” carried out by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. He provided no specific information, but the Islamic State released statements on Saturday claiming responsibility for the attacks, part of increasing indications that the group is becoming more capable of extending its reach far beyond its base in Syria and Iraq.

The French defense ministry has said the “massive” airstrikes which hit Raqqa on Sunday night, was carried out in coordination with US forces. Twenty bombs were dropped, destroying a command center, jihadi recruitment center, a munitions depot and a training camp for fighters, the defense ministry said in a statement.

AP: French police released fugitive suspect hours after Paris attack

Four French officials have told the Associated Press that police questioned and released the fugitive suspect hours after the Paris attacks.

The questioning came when police pulled over a car near the Belgian border, hours after authorities had already identified Salah Abdeslam as the renter of a Volkswagen Polo that was abandoned at the scene of the attack.

Abdeslam is now the focus of an international manhunt. One of his brothers detonated a suicide vest in central Paris and another was ultimately detained in Belgium.

He was one of three people in a car stopped by police Saturday morning, hours after the attacks that left at least 129 dead, the officials said.

Three French police officials and a top French security official confirmed all that officers stopped Abdeslam and checked his ID and then let him go.

The officials spoke only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly disclose details of the investigation.

French senator identifies Stade de France attacker

Speaking to CNN, French senator Nathalie Goulet has confirmed that Bilal Hadfi was one of the suicide bombers who attacked the Stade de France. He is said to have been born in 1995, and had been living in Belgium.

The Washington Post had earlier named Hadfi as one of the attackers, and reported that he is thought to have fought with Islamic State in Syria.